From the archive to the people in a time of need: the clear, clean (and, yes, sometimes verbed-up and distorto) signals of a sound in its birth throes! Behold: Sic Alps' Disc Rats Vol 1. Written, performed and recorded to 4 track cassette in 2006-2007, Disc Rats presents the demos for eleven fan faves from the subsequent genre-busting releases that scored Sic Alps their  infamy: U.S. EZ, "Description of  The Harbor", "Strawberry Guillotine",  "L. Mansion" and A Long Way Around To A Shortcut. 

Before the production revolutions of the band versions have set in, baby Mike Donovan's guitar and vocals flash more of that willfully isolated, TV Personalities, pimples-in-the-bedroom-mirror cool to it. Still, all the Sicness starts here - indie, garage, psych and 60s pop mashed with a gleefully opaque, punk nihilism. The tunes, not yet in their tarted-up low-fi glory - more of a blow-fi demo style - are as every bit as hummable in humble, semi-adorned early phazes.

Mastered in 2020 by The PEACERS comrade Bo Moore (Bozmo), Disc Rats Vol 1 wafts into the room like that good stuff. Pull slowly and see by clicking the link above and listening to "Bells (w/ Tromolo and Distortion) [Demo]".